Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-07-02
ON CHANGE.
Spot Cotton Unchanged; Futures Ir-
regular, in Some Cases Higher, in
Others LOWer-MOney Easy.
Wheat Opened Weak, Fluctuated Narrowly
and Closed at a Decline-Live Stock
Transactions Brisk.
Daily Review.
GAZETTE OFFICE,

GAZETTE OFFICE,
FORT WORTH, Ten, July !, lsS1.
Trade was very heavy in all lines to-
day, the holiday seeming to have livened
things up.
Wheat is moving freely, and farmers
are generally satisfied with the prices
paid.
Bradstreet's says: The total number
of industrial employees striking and
locked out during twenty-fOur days OF
June is about 1900, against 10000 during
the whole Of June, 1856. But the failure
Of the Chicago briCkmakers' strike IS Off
set by the prospect OF strike Of the
Amalgamated Association st Pittsburg
and elsewhere for an advance of 10 and
) per cent. in wages, TO begin Ju Y l..
Ii is net improbable that concessions
may be made and a strike avoided, IS in
several previous years.
Eastern pig iron is very dull, prices are
quiet and stocks GRE light. Tight money
west curbs the speculative feeling. Forge
prices are shade easier, with stocks &C
cumUlauDg. Rails are very firm, with
orders ahead The special report Of
eastern and other nail mills to Brad
( streets indicates that the May output was
~ HNL LNLLs l-1S tlaI IL A'AthJNL tNA4N 4.E'
600 kegs less than in May, 1886. Nail
production hiss increased 80 to 100 per
cent. IN six years, and consumption only
about % per cent.
Sales OF wheat held by Chicago banks
( as collateral have somewhat depressed
prices, but The export demand helped of
set this, and quotations have been reach
lag up. Condolences growing, but Is no!
E,,1 -, ffg,s,
tistics we are using and exporting wheat
from reserve stocks Scarcity Of grain
room alone has at times checked exports
Of wheat. Pacific coast wheat has ad-
TanCed during he week. At New York
10. red closes DC below last
wesE, after break and recovery in
June, with the unsettled feeling resulting
from financial troubles west. June mess
pork ST Chicago continues COrneTed at
SD. The Louisiana rice crop has been
improved by rains, and sUgsr st New Or
leans is !c higher, with 70 stocks. At
New York, sugar IS stronger in tone on
better demand and encouraging GdyiCes
from Europe, where prices range above
domestic quotations. After squirting
early in the week, coffee has been drift
ing downward with reduced speculative
lLducdCL-CL-s. Inc WSch U6CIIuG vi SpOI
is l5c,
Wool IS less ,xcited at the interior, but
seaboerd markets are strong. Sales have
been made in OHIO at last years seaboard
prices. Mills are buying sparingly, as
woolens continue dull. The decline in
imports Of clothing wool, during ten
months ended May 81, was 10 per cent,
while increased imports of wooden dress
goods amounted to II per cent. over &
Ike period in preceding year Cotton
goods iob5ing trade is light, but trade at
first hands and with commission houses
is favorable. There is no accumulation
OF stocks, and the higher prices are readi-
ly secured. Cotton is 5-I6C. lower at
New York on decreased home and foreign
demand and realizing sales. Some quail
ties OF lumber ct the east are very active,
and New England boot and shoe factories
ere well employed on contracts.